Sunday, March 17, 2013

When Cellphone photos led to self harm and suicide

The case of the Steubenville High school football players has ended and the boys have been found
guilty of rape, the case was busted wide open when photos of the
victim was passed around by the players on their cell phones. The
pictures showed a teen girl completely knocked out and drunk being
dragged around by the boys who all had sex with her. This story
brings to mind another young girl who was in a similar situation but
did not live to see her tormentors brought to justice.

Felicia Garcia and cellphone pictures

Felicia Garcia was a 15 year old high
school student who grew up with no family, her parents were killed at
an early age in an accident and she grew up in various foster homes.
Felicia, like so many young girls today had no father and very little
direction, one day she made the mistake of sleeping with a member of a Staten Island football team, this turned into a very bad
situation for her as 4 members of the football team all ended up
having intercourse with her all at the same time, as bad as the situation
was it became worst.

Cellphones are the new parents

Teens do everything on their phones
today, the most intimate details of their lives are shared with
friends on their phones, it is a world where adults are not permitted
to enter. One of the most disturbing trends among teenagers is the
sharing of details by cellphone video, the boys who had sex with
Felicia recorded it on their cellphones and shared the footage, soon
many of the students were passing around Felicia’s bad decision with
the football team. Humiliated, she was taunted continually in school and tried to
ignore what happened that horrible night but she confessed to a friend that she could not
take it anymore. When Felecia could not take the taunting and the
video that lived forever on the boy's cellphones she stood on a train
platform and as scores of students waited for the train she jumped in
front of an on coming train , she died at the scene.

Sadly in the United States 15 year old
boys are heroes if they can kick or catch a ball, many of the Staten
Island parents were worried that the boys would be suspended and miss
some “important games”. Many blame the school for protecting the players (One who had a scholarship to play college football) In a fatherless
generation many of the young girls are suffering, the role of a
loving supportive male is crucial to a young girl's development. The
hidden world of teen cellphones has caused bullying to be taken to
another level. It is time parents demand to know what is happening on
their teen's phone, at 15 teens do not have the intelligence or
experience to be unsupervised on these mobile devices, it is time for parent to step up and
start parenting. Catching a football does not make a child
exceptional, character and behavior does.